What sets Failure Free Reading's (FFR) solutions apart is the speed at which they work and the levels of academic attainment students achieve. FFR is able to demonstrate immediate impact from the very first lessons with students currently identified in the research as “treatment resisters” or “chronic non-responders.”

Elementary Solution

For Students 1st Grade - 5th Grade

JOSEPH'S READERS (1ST-5TH)

Multi-sensory language development for non-readers!

Failure Free Reading’s original core program explicitly teaches word recognition, comprehension and fluency in the context of age-appropriate stories controlled for repetition, syntax and semantics. Following placement using a software-based Diagnostic/Prescriptive assessment, small group, pullout or individual instruction follows a consistent 3 Step Methodology designed to build confidence, independence, and maximize time on task!



  • For Students 1st Grade – 5th Grade
  • The Elementary Solution Teaches: 2,605 Unique Academic English Words in Grades 1-5
  • 5,304 English Sentences
  • 6,000 Academic English Practice Activities
  • Mastery of these 2,000+ unique academic English words will allow students to read 90% of the words seen in grades 1-9!



Elementary Components:

  • Scripted Teacher Manual – one copy/level
  • Instructional Readers – six copies/level
  • Parent Communication Packet (English & Spanish) –one copy/level
  • Flashcards
  • Student Criterion Reference Test – one per level
  • Teacher Criterion Reference Test with Student Record Sheets – one per level
  • Illustrated Booklets (six copies of each story)
  • Professional Development Kit
  • Blackline Master – Available on Win/Mac CD and
  • NEW Online Electronic Library:
  • Includes electronic versions of print components PLUS:
  • Eight different Independent Activities per lesson
  • Writing Activities for Orange & Teal Levels
  • One Certificate of Excellence per story

Secondary Solution

A Proven Method for Jump Starting your 6-12 Grade Non-Readers

SECONDARY SOLUTION (6-12TH)

Image is everything. Middle and high school students reading well below third grade level don’t want a program filled with childish elementary content and images. Fortunately, your students can do much more. Your adolescent non-responders who couldn’t sound out the word “rain,” will learn to read, write, and spell age appropriate words, such as, “precipitation” regardless of their prior reading ability.


Finally, there is hope for your older non-readers!



FFR’s Secondary Solution consist of the upper level Orange & Teal levels (grade level 2-5) with all of the Verbal Master levels.



Consists of the non-consumable curriculum collection plus Joseph’s Readers and Verbal Master Online Talking Software.


Non-Consumable Print Components:


Orange & Teal Levels:


  • Scripted Teacher Manual- one copy/level
  • Parent Communication Packet (English & Spanish)- one copy/level
  • Flashcards
  • Student Criterion Reference Test- One per level
  • Teacher Criterion Reference Test with Student Record Sheets- one per level
  • Illustrated Booklets (six copies of each story)
  • Professional Development Kit
  • Blackline Master- Available on Win/Mac CD and
  • New Online Electronic Library”
  • Includes electronic versions of print components PLUS:
  • Eight different independent activities per lesson
  • Writing activities for Orange & Teal levels
  • One Certificate of Excellence per story

Verbal Master Levels I-IV:


  • Scripted Teacher Manual- one copy/level
  • Blackline Master- binder, Win/Mac CD and
  • New Online Electronic Library:
  • Student Workbook- four activities per unit
  • Writing Activities- five per unit
  • Parent Communication Packet- one per unit
  • Complex Text Stories (cluster stories)- six per level
  • Flashcards
  • Student Criterion Reference Test- six per level
  • Teacher Criterion Reference Test- six per level

BONUS FEATURE! Writing Activities

The Secondary Solution now includes Writing Activities for each level (Orange & Teal, VM 1-4). These activities are a complete program for teaching spelling and written composition to your struggling readers.

Verbal Master Solution

A Tier Two Accelerated Vocabulary Program for students 6th grade - SAT/ACT


VERBAL MASTER SOLUTION (6TH-SAT/ACT)

Verbal Master is a supplemental language arts curriculum that integrates word recognition activities, explicit/multi-sensory comprehension instruction, and writing. Now even the most severely delayed readers can rapidly improve vocabulary, fluency, critical thinking, productive time on task, background knowledge, and confidence!




NEW!!! Complex Text Stories


Common Core mandates Complex Text for all students. Verbal Master allows you to teach Complex Text in its most comprehensible format to your struggling readers.


1 Unit = 5 new Vocabulary Words

1 Cluster = 6 Units or 30 Words



Verbal Master is age-appropriate and self-paced. Suitable for struggling-gifted readers with no reading level prerequisite.

Life Skills Solution

A School-to-Career Transition Program for Special Needs High School Students



FFR's Life Skills Solution (Career Transition Program for Special Needs High School Students)

LIFE SKILLS SOLUTION

Life Skills is a special edition of Failure Free Reading that teaches cognitively challenged secondary-adult students to read age & developmentally appropriate content. Perfect for self-contained, resource or community-based instruction classes. Life Skills can be used with the basic(Career transition/special Needs High School) English or social skills curriculum.


The only complete life skills curriculum that teaches beginning reading!

Sample Text taken from
Employment, "Job Interview Skills"


  • Scaffold learning in ways that would be impractical to provide otherwise.
  • Scripted lessons & software eliminate extra prep time

Now, even your hardest-to-reach learners, those reading, as low as 0.0, can develop effective communication skills, work habits, job interview skills, and self-confidence - all while learning to read!


“Every student is making progress and it is so engaging that I have a hard time getting them off the program. It is age appropriate, and it is showing improvement in the reading and writing ability of all the students.”


— Carmeline Gross, Reading/English 9-12 Speech Language Pathologist


Customized Solutions for the Deaf

A Non-Phonic Sight-Based Reading Solution for Deaf Students

DEAF/HEARING IMPAIRED SOLUTIONS (K-12)

Closed Captioned Software with ASL Video Instructions!

Closed Captioned Software with ASL Video Instructions!

This non-phonic, language based solution is the first program to control for: sentence structure, story content, and repetition, as well as: uncommon names, dates, places, pronouns, idioms, and figurative speech.


“I have witnessed each of my reading students at Georgia School for the Deaf approach high level reading material with more self-confidence than I have seen in my ten years as a teacher for the deaf.”


— Jamie Anderson, ASL/English Specialist


  • Teaches critical vocabulary essential for reading success:
  • Highly Structured
  • Age-Appropriate
  • Real World Themes
  • Instills Confidence
  • Turns every Reading Lesson into a Vocabulary Lesson
  • Expands Background Knowledge

Customized Solutions for ELL / ESL

Boosting your Beginning Level ELL / ESL Readers for Students as low as 0.01

ELL/ESL Solutions (K-12)

Introducing our NEW Customized Solutions for ELL / ESL with audio directions and pronunciations available in Spanish!

ELEMENTARY • MIDDLE • HIGH


This program teaches vocabulary that is highly transferable, incorporating the 2,000 more frequently used words in Academic English text.

  • 2,605 Unique Academic English Words
  • 6,000 Academic English Practice Activities
  • 5,304 English Sentences

Conversational English is not enough. ELL students must learn how to read a core body of critical Academic English words. This Core Academic English Reading Program “fast tracks” the ability of beginning and chronic Level 1 ELL students of all ages to read with expressive fluency and comprehension.


This program teaches:

  • Expressive Fluency
  • Reading Comprehension
  • Vocabulary
  • Spelling

Customized Solutions for RTI

>> RTI Solutions available in Spanish, ASL Video, and Closed Captioning

RTI TIER II & TIER III SOLUTIONS

This online-only, short term special edition of Failure Free Reading was designed to rapidly assess the responsiveness of Tier II and Tier III readers to our intensive language development-based non-phonic interventions -- while producing dramatic results in just 30 hours! Failure Free Reading’s Nationally Recognized Standard Treatment Protocol is designed to:


  • Bolster the achievement of students before they are officially referred for special education
  • Stop the over representation of minority students in special education
  • Monitor student progress
  • Use data to make decisions
  • Use assessments for screening, diagnostics and progress monitoring



Failure Free Reading’s RTI Features


• Immediate corrective feedback

• Teaches critical academic vocabulary

• Increases fluency and comprehension

• Eliminates inappropriate placements

• Non phonetic alternative for Tiers 2 & 3

• On going detailed assessments and monitoring

• Cost effective

Professional Development

A Unique Staff Development Opportunity

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT SOLUTIONS

Highly Effective Instructional techniques for chronic non-responders of all ages and classifications



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Jeff Clayton - https://jeffclayton.net - Software Architect/IT Director